I jouined Wow on the free version, because I never played it before.
I got a dwarf, with an axe, and ran into some weird fighting lagging, and some weird guy giving me quests.
I gave up in the first half hour, because I was given a mission to get some ale, but they never told me where, the bloody dwarfs.
This is why I don't play it.
It was too....Dwarf-ish. I like dwarfs, sure, but no one was....roleplaying, and no one was really talking!
Everyone seemed death. The mission were old-school guild wars, and, bah, Guild wars had better grathics!
So yes, I think WoW is Dead.